Example sentences of "is that [adj] [noun] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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31 First came the decision to award Esther Rantzen a new contract worth £1.2m when the consensus is that few people can stand the sight of her .
32 The result is that most students can choose between two or three honours specialisations in the final year .
33 One factor which will help stop Westland 's prison house shades from falling to dramatically onto users is that most authorities will move only cautiously towards a care management budgeting system , given the uncertainties which surround overall budgets for next year .
34 The essence of such a tenancy is that either party may determine it at will .
35 The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis .
36 The point about the above argument is that alienistic attitudes can become the prevalent force at every stage of a deaf person 's education .
37 Our second tentative conclusion is that social services may have reduced people 's subjective sense of inequality .
38 The quicker you can get around the mast the better , some people even jump , but the main point is that both hands should hold the mast and not the uphaul rope .
39 The crux of the argument — the impetus of the Girls into Science and Technology ( GIST ) , Women into Science and Engineering ( WISE ) and INSIGHT schemes — is that more girls must take up science subjects ; girls must do as well as boys .
40 First , Nicholas Budgen , the somewhat maverick right-wing Tory MP , said on 5 December 1984 when receiving the Spectator Backbencher-of-the-Year Award , ‘ My hope is that this Parliament will see a restoration of Cabinet government . ’
41 One possibility under consideration is that this assessment may take the form of a project or assignment to be completed by the candidate .
42 His starting point is that this structure will have the form of a grammar .
43 are really making is that this period may seem trivially small compared , say , to the sinkage of capital involved in the decision to build and operate a power station .
44 All that matters to me is that this technology will save Carly 's life . ’
45 The danger here is that this ballooning could cut off the emergency cooling water altogether .
46 5.22 Defective premises To give notice to the Landlord of any defect in the Premises which might give rise to an obligation on the Landlord to do or refrain from doing any act or thing in order to comply with the provisions of this Lease or the duty of care imposed on the Landlord pursuant to the Defective Premises Act 1972 or otherwise and at all times to display and maintain all notices which the Landlord may from time to time [ reasonably ] require to be displayed at the Premises The difficulty here is that this covenant could impose an unfair obligation on the tenant and it should therefore be amended as follows : To give notice to the Landlord upon becoming aware of any defect … 5.23 New guarantor Within [ 14 ] days of the death during the Term of any Guarantor or of such person becoming bankrupt or having a receiving order made against him or having a receiver appointed under the Mental Health Act 1983 or being a company passing a resolution to wind up or entering into liquidation or having a receiver appointed to give notice of this to the Landlord and if so required by the Landlord at the expense of the Tenant within [ 28 ] days to procure some other person acceptable to the Landlord [ such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld ] to execute a guarantee in respect of the Tenant 's obligations contained in this Lease in the form of the Guarantor 's covenants contained in this Lease Although this may be perfectly fair and reasonable in that a guarantor 's covenants are expected to last during the period for which they are given , many tenants try to resist this covenant on the basis that it may be extremely difficult for the tenant to produce an alternative guarantor .
47 What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified .
48 The idea is that this aircraft could fill the gap in the navy 's procurement schedule caused by the recent cancellation of the A-12 stealth machine that the navy was developing .
49 The irony is that this victory may contain the seeds of eventual defeat .
50 The best bet on National day is that another record will fall on the fast turf and that a vast number of runners will clear the 30 fences .
51 Miron 's tentative conclusion is that older staff may become less concerned about teaching as they develop other priorities ; but it is equally possible that students are responding more similarly , and more favourably , to lecturers who are more like themselves .
52 Another reason why you may not see them mating is that some adults can lay eggs without mating first .
53 What they 've been saying is that some authorities might have experiments in the cabinet arrangement we 're not advising to go down that road because and on which point we do n't agree with that type of of government .
54 Another testable restriction is that some variables will affect only the membership and wage equations directly .
55 7.7.1 to comply with all the requirements and recommendations of the insurers The problem with the requirements and recommendations of insurers is that some insurers can impose quite unreasonable requirements and recommendations .
56 What is quite clear is that any success will rest on the basic sciences of virology and molecular biology , and that , without research into obscure aspects of these subjects the direct hunt for new cures would be no better than shooting in the dark with unfamiliar weapons at an undefined target .
57 We have already seen how unlikely it is that any party would go before the electorate avowing such differences : an exhibition of disunity would be too damaging to its chances of success .
58 ‘ The second reason for withdrawing clause 54(4) is that these services would tend to be much less used .
59 tourism in West Sussex I mean what would happen to that is just one example er on a broader level , the County Council is working with the European regions to promote West Sussex in Europe and what would happen to that , the only conclusion we could draw is that these policies would crumble and to er seriously affect West Sussex and finally I come back to the point that , that I will keep making , if I ever get the opportunity , namely the cost of this exercise .
60 Some groups of pieces may still form parts of the picture , but the more you shake the box , the more likely it is that these groups will get broken up and the pieces will be in a completely jumbled state in which they do n't form any sort of picture .
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